I have a teenage daughter. When ever we go to the mall the workers in the stores keep a close eye on her. She's profiled as a demographic that
needs to be watched more closely in the stores because so many teen age girls shoplift. IT'S A SMART AND REASONABLE THING FOR THE STORES TO DO. I
have spoken to her and have told her that when she's near jewelry that she should stand with her hands behind her back and not touch anything so that
the store people can relax. I'm not angry at the stores ... I fully understand it. So does my daughter. They watch her ... so what?? There is a
reason for profiling ... it's not something that is invented out of thin air.

But there are FAR, FAR, FAR more black men or African-Americans in general who are profiled or denied their civil rights in the course of any given
day than there are Blacks killed each year in Chicago.

We should be able to talk about BOTH issues, but the one the President chose to discuss affects exponentially more people.

Most don't get it, can't fathom it, because it has never happened to them.

If you guys really wanted to put your money where your mouth is, you would try to empathize, understand and discuss the issue - not mock it and not
mock him for relating to it.

Race aside, Trayvon could have been any of us had we been conducting ourselves in the same fashion.

Race aside, Zimmerman could have been any of us had we been conducting ourselves in the same fashion.

Race aside, these were two human beings that crossed paths in an unfortunate incident. A jury of peers reviewed the evidence... this is our way; our
system of justice, and they found Zimmerman not guilty of the charges leveled against him.

Race aside, if we were better parents and more attendant to our kin, things like this might not happen as often.

Race aside, if we didn't use race as an excuse for incidents that first and foremost involved human beings... whose blood all bleeds out the same
color... we might find other things to talk about.

But there are FAR, FAR, FAR more black men or African-Americans in general who are profiled or denied their civil rights in the course of any given
day than there are Blacks killed each year in Chicago.

Think profiling is unique only to African Americans?

It isn't.

Think being denied civil rights is unique to African Americans.

It isn't'.

There is not a single group or person who doesn't experience either of those.

We should be able to talk about BOTH issues, but the one the President chose to discuss affects exponentially more people.

When every single person in this country is included in that conversation then maybe things will change.

Most don't get it, can't fathom it, because it has never happened to them.

Yeah they can be it 'Terrorists' Asians,Irish,hispanic,Vietnamese,Chinese,Polish,Germans,Japanese, and ever other demographic in this country.

Sorry to say the African Americans don't own the patent or copy right on those experiences.

"I think it would be useful for us to examine some state and local laws to see if it—if they are designed in such a way that they may encourage
the kinds of altercations and confrontations and tragedies that we saw in the Florida case, rather than defuse potential altercations."

This right here is what I consider the meat of Obama's whole statement. The subtext is clear: Let's place the culpability on the State law in this
case, and let's dialogue on how to replace it with one that's more lenient on our black youth.

That is what this is about. It's the opening statement in a debate on how to introduce laws that embrace the concept of Affirmative Action as
applied to law enforcement.

I am refusing to get angry about this, and it's catalyst, The Zimmerman trial. It's not the least bit surprising to me, and the only reason I am
speaking about it is to be counted as another voice.

Well sadly after all the stupidity that the present black American president has said since the Zimmerman case I have come to the conclusion
Obama is not dignified president and that he is pretty much nothing but ghetto trash

And that is my personal opinion given the recent events where his true colors has come forward to show what kind of person he actually is that no even
the dignified offices of the president of the US can even take the ghetto out of him.

To this point I don't care if my post is taken away to be too straight forward.

This whole thing is getting a bit silly. The President should have made one simple statement in the very beginning about it being a horrible event,
and how he wishes condolences to the family. That's it.

He's loosing points with people that might have been on the fence with him. He should be focusing on other, larger issues at hand.

I know a lot of you think this race thing is being manufactured, but you're wrong. I dated a black guy for a couple years and let me tell you, I got
treated differently because I was with him. People watched us when we were in a store. It was SO OBVIOUS! People whispered about us in public. They
stared and shook their heads. I have just a TINY bit of experience being profiled and not trusted, simply because of the color of my boyfriend's
skin, and that's when I really GOT what white privilege is.

Am I the only one that feels it is a bit ironic, that a black man who has risen to the highest role of leadership in the entire nation is going on
about how there is still discrimination?

I'm sure there's some (and not just against blacks, but others also, even whitey), but c'mon. I just haven't seen it to any kind of real degree.
Granted, I'm white, so haven't been on the end of it, but I'm pretty observant, and haven't seen people I know experience it either, and I know
many of varied races, creeds, etc.

He made this a racial issue when it wasn't one, and now he's forced to back pedal, because the justice system made the same determination... He'd
be better off never mentioning Trayvon's name again...as he's got egg all over his face now from it....

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